E. Taylor Atkins

A History of Popular Culture in Japan (eBook, ePUB)

From the Seventeenth Century to the Present

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The phenomenon of 'Cool Japan' is one of the distinctive features of global popular culture of the millennial age. A History of Popular Culture in Japan provides the first historical and analytical overview of popular culture in Japan from its origins in the 17th century to the present day, using it to explore broader themes of conflict, power and meaning in Japanese history.

E. Taylor Atkins shows how Japan was one of the earliest sites for the development of mass-produced, market-oriented cultural products consumed by urban middle and working classes. From traditional monochrome ink painting, court literature and poetry to anime, manga and J-Pop, popular culture was pivotal in the rise of Japanese nationalism, imperialism, militarism and economic development, and to the present day plays a central role in Japanese identity.

With updated historiography throughout, this fully revised second edition features:
- A new chapter on popular culture in the Edo period
- An expanded section on pre-Tokugawa culture
- More discussion on recent pop culture phenomena such as TV game shows, cuteness and J-Pop
- 10 new images
- A new glossary of terms including kanji

This improved edition is a vital resource for students of Japanese cultural history wishing to gain a deeper understanding of Japan's contributions to global cultural heritage.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350195943
• Artikelnr.: 64377616

Autorenporträt

E. Taylor Atkins is Distinguished Teaching Professor of History at Northern Illinois University, USA. He is the author of A History of Popular Culture in Japan (Bloomsbury 2017; 2nd. ed., 2022), Primitive Selves: Koreana in the Japanese Colonial Gaze, 1910-1945 (2010), and Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japan (2001), and editor of Jazz Planet (2003).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 The worst which has
been thought and said? Defining popular culture 2 Floating worlds-the birth
of popular culture in Japan 3 A whole new world-cultural exchanges with
East Asia and Europe 4 Naughty and nice-early modern Japan's culture wars 5
Popular culture as subject and object of Meiji modernization 6 Cultural
living-cosmopolitan modernism in imperial Japan 7 Entertaining
empire-popular culture as a "technology of imperialism" 8 "Our spirit
against their steel"-mobilizing culture for war 9 Democracy, monstrosity,
and pensive prosperity-postwar pop 10 Millennial Japan as dream factory
Afterword-Contemplating cool Notes References Index